An edited transcript of a debate addressing the dynamical, co-evolutionary nature of the technosphere, its quasi-autonomous status, and the political stakes involved.
The following text is an edited transcript of a cross-disciplinary conversation that took place during Anthropocene Campus 2014 at HKW, Berlin, in November 2014. Convened by Peter Haff, Manfred Laubichler, Armin Reller, Jürgen Renn, and Jan Zalasiewicz, participants were asked to address the dynamical, co-evolutionary nature of the technosphere, its quasi-autonomous status, and the political stakes involved.